Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official

Fan Xie 范𢷋

Attested AD 471 - AD 477

Passages: 9
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Fan Xie was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 477 太和元年二月
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 51, passage 194
AD 471 to AD 477 顯袓時至太和元年
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 51, passages 167, 194

Career and standing

Magistrate of Lunu 慮奴令
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passage 180

Places and affiliations

Polity Northern Wei 北魏 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passage 167
At Zhao Commandery 趙郡
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passage 167
At Lunu 慮奴 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passage 180
At Zhao Commandery 趙郡 · Relation Native of
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passage 167

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Li Xin (李訢) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passages 198-199

Events and relationships

Drew up account of Fu brothers offenses
Legal · Accuser · With Li Fu (李敷)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passage 167
Reported Xin rebellion to please those in power
AD 477 太和元年二月 · Political · Denouncer · With Li Xin (李訢)
Dated from the passage context · Book of Wei 51, passage 194
Testified against Xin
Judicial · Witness · With Li Xin (李訢)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passage 196
Relation Adviser of · Person Li Xin (李訢)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passage 173
Relation Protege of · Person Li Xin (李訢)
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passages 178, 197

Assessments and attributes

Assessment without merit yet appointed; skilled at winning men with manner and words; power-and-profit talk · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passages 176, 180

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Wei 51, passage 167

References in the histories

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History

9 passages

Book of Wei, Chapter 51Volume 46: Dou Jin, Xu Yan, Li Xin · 9 passages

又趙郡范𢷋具條列敷兄弟事狀，有司以聞。 Fan Xie of Zhao Commandery also drew up a detailed account of the Fu brothers' offenses, and the judicial offices reported it to the throne.

用范𢷋、陳端等計，令千里之外，戶別轉運，詣倉輸之。 Following the plans of Fan Xie, Chen Duan, and others, he ordered households a thousand li away to transport grain separately and deliver it to the granaries.

訢弟左將軍璞謂訢曰：「范𢷋善能降人以色，假人以辭，未聞德義之言，但有勢利之說。 Xin's younger brother Pu, General of the Left, said to him, "Fan Xie is skilled at winning men with a pleasant manner and lending them fine phrases. You never hear him speak of virtue and righteousness—only of power and profit.

訢不從，彌信之，腹心之事，皆以告𢷋。 Xin would not listen. He trusted Fan Xie all the more and confided in him every matter closest to his heart.

𢷋以無功，起家拜慮奴令。 Fan Xie, though he had done nothing to deserve it, began his official career as Magistrate of Lunu.

范𢷋知文明太后忿訢也，又知內外疾之。 Fan Xie knew that Empress Dowager Wenming resented Xin and that he was detested throughout court and realm.

引𢷋證訢，訢言：「爾妄云知我，吾又何言！ Fan Xie was brought in to testify against him. Xin said, "You falsely claim to know me—what more can I say!

𢷋曰：「公德於𢷋，何若李敷之德於公？ Fan Xie replied, "The kindness you showed me—how does it compare with the kindness Li Fu showed you?

公昔忍於敷，𢷋今敢不忍於公乎？」 You once hardened your heart against Fu—why should I now dare spare you?"